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Monday, September 9, 2013

After
many years of vatican bank money laundering, no financial transparency, disappearance of
money, denials of blame, bank collapse, Mafia dealings and murder the new pope francis
– under a “recommendation” from the European
anti-money laundering committee Moneyval -- created a commission to look into
the bank’s dealings.

Experts on money-laundering predicted
that the Moneyval report would contain serious misgivings about whether the
bank did anything to end “its reputation as a channel for Mafia profits of
crime, arms deals and even the financing of terrorism.”Moneyval
said in a July 2012 report that the vatican still had a way to go.

For the past
three years the previous pope tried to clean up bank dealings after evidence
showed that the previous head of the bank, monsignor Angelo Caloia had expanded
money laundering and was keeping secret accounts for favored politicians since
the 1970s and 1980s.

Can
the vatican really police itself? Look at their track record:

1942: Vatican bank set up to
finance works of charity worldwide. From the start activities of the bank were
controversial and there were allegations of questionable movements of money and
gold during and after the Second World War.

1969: The
vatican bank’s criminal business took off when lawyer, banker and Mafia don
Michele “The Shark” Sindona was given the job of running it by his old friend
pope Paul VI. Sindona used the bank to launder the Gambino Mafia family’s heroin
profits. By the late 1970s Sindona and his bank were being investigated by
Italian judges, prosecutors and politicians, several of whom were murdered. In
1986 Sindona, serving a 25-year sentence for murder, was poisoned in his cell
by cyanide in his coffee.

2010: Italian investigators froze US$33 million in
funds that the vatican bank put in an Italian bank because of suspicion of
money laundering and less than legitimate vatican financial practices. The
vatican bankers were “unable to respond” to a series of requests about
questionable money transfers of $1.5 billion from the account in a short period
of time. The money freeze was lifted in June 2011 but the investigation
continued.JP Morgan became nervous
after Italian investigators found the account in a Milan bank and began to
question vatican officials. Not getting good answers, it then closed the Milan
account, saying anti-money laundering regulations did not permit its continued
operation.

2012 (March
8, Philip Pullella, Reuters) reported that the U.S. State Department added the
vatican to its list of money-laundering centers because of the large amount of
international currency handled by a very secretive vatican.

Still
At It

June 2013: The new pope has
incentive to do something since there is a new
money-laundering case: a Holy See monsignor Nunzio Scarano, withdrew more than
a half-million euros in charitable donations (yes, yours!) from the bank and
then used the money to pay off his personal mortgage. Also, Italian prosecutors are investigating
two former vatican bank top executives on suspicion of repeatedly breaking
Italian money laundering laws.

The vatican doesn’t
want transparent financial records; they want to keep secret the bank’s 35,000
accounts, $7.5 billion in assets and the $55 million a year that the banking
business produces for the church. These figures may just be the tip of the iceberg
because no one really knows the total wealth of the church.

Does an
organization like this care about the poor, abused and abandoned of the world?
Do they use the contributions from millions of Catholics to help people – or to
fatten their wallets? In the daily news the new pope has lots of distractions
for the faithful while he slams the door on auditors who want to see what he is
really doing with our money – just like he slams the door on survivors of nun
and clergy abuse. The pope has time to meet with and tweet with everyone else
except those who suffered the most.

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When I was three and a half years old, I and my five year
old brother Frankie were raped by a catholic priest and put in St. Agnes Home and School in Sparkill, NY. I was beaten every day and then smothered by a catholic
nun. I didn't die but I was in a coma for almost year, leaving me brain damaged. After we got out, my
brother killed himself because he couldn't help me or accept the abuse we received. I want everyone to know
about the brutality and crime then and still going on in the catholic church. I want to stop
the crimes the church commits against our children and us and get justice for the victims. Give me your ideas
so that we all succeed in making this world safer for our children.